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Fling out the banner! let it float

by George Washington Doane (1799–1859)

Representative text

As printed in The Church Hymnal (1941), no. 450 — the newest hymnal carrying it.

Verse 1

Fling out the banner! let it float Skyward and seaward, high and wide; Our glory only in the cross; Our only hope, the Crucified.

Verse 2

Fling out the banner! angels bend In anxious silence o'er the sign, And vainly seek to comprehend The wonder of the love divine.

Verse 3

Fling out the banner! sin-sick souls, That sink and perish in the strife, Shall touch in faith its radiant hem, And spring immortal into life.

Verse 4

Fling out the banner! wide and high, Seaward and skyward, let it shine; Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours; We conquer only in that sign.

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